by VILARCANE » Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:33
i just went out of a friendly match against coolhand texas's hewitt.
Again, when i play against risk shots players, and here with so much lag it was almost unplayable (in my standards anyway), i get so mad / frustrated each time i am taken off my timing, so...
anyways, first, let me say i never play coolh and i don't know his ranking and all, but i rarely saw so many and so varied risk shots (he obviously masters them all quite good, and it is a joy to behold, i mean, not that my soderling liked them a alot).
His Hewitt was a balanced / built for risk shots build, and he did not take his 90*4/40 safin whom he had selected at first, probably not to be too much in conflict with my feelings about this, and i thank him for that.
I guess taking my soderling and using no risk shots + suffering from
tedious lag made it a fair game against his balanced (sim like) player.
The match itself was gruelling from start till end, with long rallies, counter attacks, incredible defense from both sides.
I managed to break (after a lot of wasted break points due to a very tactical and aggressive opponent) and won the first set eventually.
The second set started ok for me with my service game in the pocket, i tried to break him right away and missed the mark on my break point...
Then i was led 3-1 in a matter of minutes after i got broken quite easily...
I decided to focus on my service game hoping to debreak some time in the set, which hapened on the 8th game, where i leveled at 4-4 after some incredible points...
At 5-4 on his serve i had a first match point opportunity and i would have won if i did not unvoluntarily volleyed his ball (that was out) from the baseline...Then after (i think) 2 more saved match point i managed to wrap up the match
Soderling d. Hewitt 6-4 6-4
Again, a very gg, would have wished without the lag, but we both suffered from it i guess...
See you,
i'll let coolhand comment on this as well !